Word: combatative
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...first. But later, after asking the candidate directly, he amended his judgment: "He answered me straight and passed every one of my tests." Webb is an outdoorsy hunting-and-fishing environmentalist. He is pro-choice, pro-gay rights. He has expressed nuanced reservations about affirmative action and women in combat in the past and takes careful time to explain his positions now. "If he told a lie, his tongue would fall out," says his strategist, Dave (Mudcat) Saunders, who won't take any money from him. "His sense of honor is a frightening thing...
...when it moved into Haditha, a Euphrates River farming town about 150 miles northwest of Baghdad. Several members of the unit were on their second tour of Iraq; one was on his third. The men in Kilo Company were veterans of ferocious house-to-house fighting in Fallujah. Their combat experience seemed to prepare them for the ordeal of serving in an insurgent stronghold like Haditha, the kind of place where the enemy attacks U.S. troops from the cover of mosques, schools and homes and uses civilians as shields, complicating Marine engagement rules to shoot only when threatened. In Haditha...
...cause of blindness in the elderly has generated a lucrative deal with Merck & Co., the US’s second-largest drug provider. Pfeiffer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Robert R. Rando’s research has paved the way for the manufacturing of drugs that might combat the progression of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common version of AMD which causes vision loss in up to eight million American elderly a year. Merck will pay an initial $3 million, along with later fees for further milestones in the development and royalties on resulting products...
After the first Gulf War, in which five female service members were killed in action and two taken prisoner, Congress lifted the ban on women serving on combat ships. The Pentagon scrapped the rule that barred women from assignments with a high risk of facing enemy fire. Now women are excluded from only 9% of Army roles (though that represents nearly 30% of active-duty positions); 99% of all occupations and positions in the Air Force are open to women, and in the Navy, women are excluded from only SEAL teams and submarines...
...target for terrorists. Thus a law which screens entering aliens and puts their personal information in a database may be crucial to safeguarding Tokyo from the fate of Istanbul, Riyadh, or Bali. There is some merit to this argument, though Japan’s exclusively logistic and non-combat role in the War on Terror makes it far less (if at all) a terrorist’s target than the U.S. The fingerprinting law, however, also raises many serious concerns, though slightly different from those surrounding U.S. homeland security laws. While the US law reflects security considerations of a global...